UCLA and USC and others SoCal schools?

[Anonymous]

My son has already been LA-ified. I called him in a panic about the fires, and he started laughing and saying it’s all fine. UCLA will do that to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How often are wildfires in SoCal? If memory serves right, Claremont had a fire right next to their campus earlier this year! It feels like it’s been on constant fire.

Common out west. CA is very dry.

Very scary.

SoCal is very dry. NorCal has above average rainfall but the patterns are keeping the rain further north so far this year.

[Anonymous]

Ash is dropping through the air like “snow”

https://x.com/msuster/status/1878175710033904074

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How often are wildfires in SoCal? If memory serves right, Claremont had a fire right next to their campus earlier this year! It feels like it’s been on constant fire.

Common out west. CA is very dry.

Very scary.

SoCal is very dry. NorCal has above average rainfall but the patterns are keeping the rain further north so far this year.

NorCal has been a nightmare this year. I fear a bomb cyclone more than the fires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son has already been LA-ified. I called him in a panic about the fires, and he started laughing and saying it’s all fine. UCLA will do that to you.

So cute. That's what the people of Pacific Palisades and Altadena thought. Until it happened to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How often are wildfires in SoCal? If memory serves right, Claremont had a fire right next to their campus earlier this year! It feels like it’s been on constant fire.

Common out west. CA is very dry.

Very scary.

There are natural disasters everywhere. Hurricaines, blizzards, tornadoes... pick your poison. The trick to living with fire risk is to follow evac orders when given and be prepared to lose large material possessions, though odds of either happening are actually quite small.

We have two properties in a western state where fires are common. We are aware that our vacation house in the mountains, if fire comes, would just be gone and we are ok with that. However, in 20 years, we've never been under even pre-evac orders at either spot. Fires are typically very localized.

I have not been following the LA fire news carefully, but from the little I saw, the water scarcity issue is a problem and shouldn't have been unforeseen. There are probably issues behind the response.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pomona seems safe and mostly unaffected, although I imagine the air quality currently sucks. We're planning on dropping off DS next weekend.

The air quality always sucks in the inland empire whenever there’s a fire, the wind is not our friend; UCLA has better air quality than Pomona right now

+1

My DD is at Scripps and the air quality at 5Cs is often bad whenever there's a wildfire (which with climate change is often and only increasing).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son has already been LA-ified. I called him in a panic about the fires, and he started laughing and saying it’s all fine. UCLA will do that to you.

So cute. That's what the people of Pacific Palisades and Altadena thought. Until it happened to them.

It’s extremely unlikely a fire would cross the 405. This is wishing ill when it’s unnecessary. Pacific palisades residents live in a fire-prone area and they know that. Altadena’s name literally has origin in meaning upper crown of the valley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pomona seems safe and mostly unaffected, although I imagine the air quality currently sucks. We're planning on dropping off DS next weekend.

The air quality always sucks in the inland empire whenever there’s a fire, the wind is not our friend; UCLA has better air quality than Pomona right now

+1

My DD is at Scripps and the air quality at 5Cs is often bad whenever there's a wildfire (which with climate change is often and only increasing).

DD sent some fantastic pictures of the mt baldy fires from a browsing room. It’s so eerie being in such a beautiful place during a disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son has already been LA-ified. I called him in a panic about the fires, and he started laughing and saying it’s all fine. UCLA will do that to you.

Did all the overconfident idiots running the government out there go to UCLA?

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure if it’s the DC demographic but these comments are a bit ridiculous. Conditions have substantially improved across the board for these fires, why in the world is anyone commenting on city leadership when they don’t know anything about LA or how it’s run?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be almost no impact on admissions. Other than Pepperdine, not a lot of students are going to LA for Altadena or Malibu. This is more likely to have affected faculty than staff; living in the hills is a luxury. We’ve seen a lot of gofundme for students’ families, but the staff themselves mostly live in the city.

Are you in LA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There should be almost no impact on admissions. Other than Pepperdine, not a lot of students are going to LA for Altadena or Malibu. This is more likely to have affected faculty than staff; living in the hills is a luxury. We’ve seen a lot of gofundme for students’ families, but the staff themselves mostly live in the city.

Are you in LA?

Yep

[Anonymous]

Maybe UCLA will have a delay in sending out acceptances?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe UCLA will have a delay in sending out acceptances?

Seems unlikely